Dream Narratives in the Space of Internet Communication

The paper analyses the linguistic features of dream narrative in the space of Internet dream forums. The study is carried out in the context of the cognitive-discursive approach to language, aimed at cognition of the world and fixation of knowledge and experience structures. As a result of examining the texts presented on the sites of various dream forums, the semantic dominants of this type of discourse were identified and the tendencies of speech shifts and transformations of this narrative due to the influence of the digital environment were shown. It was determined that modern dream narratives can include new lexical units related to technology or topical social themes, non-standard grammatical constructions reflecting the fragmentary and irreal nature of dreams, characteristic emotional-evaluative means aimed at compensating non-verbal emotional expression. It is shown that in the texts of dream narratives the significance of punctuation marks as additional means of conveying the sensual sphere is strengthened, and the expansion of the limits of their use is pointed out. The study of dream narrative in the conditions of Internet communication allows us to consider it as an indicator of linguistic and speech shifts of modernity in the conditions of adaptation to changing cultural contexts.